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EBBA 21095

Magdalene College - Pepys

Recording Information

Ballad Title

The Power and Pleasure of Love. / Is here describ'd an Antidote of joy, / Against all grief, which doth the heart annoy; / For the greatest Monarch, Clown, and Fool, / Loves power doth conquer, and keeps all in rule: / And those who Love, and kind and constant be, / Live in a continued Extasie; / But those who do in sorrows constant dwell, / Were ne'r in Love, and can't it's pleasure tell.

Tune Imprint

To a new Play-House Tune: Or, All joy to fair Psyche, &c.

Standard Tune Title

All Joy to Fair Psyche

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